Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Government has pressed beneficiaries of UK development aid to respect human rights , but the death penalty has not been raised in the negotiations . |
| 2 | Mrs B asked that her children be sent to their father , who was working in England , and had not been implicated in the allegations of abuse . |
| 3 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 4 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 5 | Applicants deluged the NME with calls claiming that promises of replacement tickets for Morrissey 's December 19 shows at The Alexandra Palace had not been met by the organisers . |
| 6 | How could anyone forget some of the spectacular effects she designed , the likes of which have not been seen since the days when Hank Bosch was head of Graphics ? |
| 7 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is in talks with Hewlett-Packard Co on the formation of a joint venture in the area of telecommunications network management and control according to Swedish sources whose information has not been denied by the protagonists . |
| 8 | This has not been done in the interests of achieving a restrictively formalist , text-immanent reading of the story , nor is it suggested that contextual detail does not have a part to play in a multidimensional , interpretative process . |
| 9 | Well , there are millions of people who are missing from electoral registers , who are people who are entitled to be registered and the problem is probably the greatest among those who are known as attainers and are qualifying for registration at eighteen for the first time in their lives , the numbers of attainers er qualifying has reduced percentage wise , year by year , especially since the introduction of the poll tax and has not been rectified by the measures that remove the poll tax . |
| 10 | For example , it may be permissible to use the Apple logo for brandy ( providing it has not been registered against the wines and spirits class ) and there would be little danger of the public thinking it had anything to do with the computer company . |
| 11 | The distinction is explicable on the basis that directorship has not been regarded by the courts as a profession , and hence a director is not expected to satisfy a higher standard , for example that of the reasonably competent business manager , simply by virtue of holding office . |
| 12 | They had not been schooled in the symptoms of such abuse , but she told reporters that the abuse of children was such a terrible problem in society , that everyone should be on the look-out for it . |
| 13 | ‘ If this complex had not been bombed by the Zionists in 1981 , then we would by now have the capability for the production of nuclear warheads . |
| 14 | The cost of coffee is being investigated by the Office of Fair Trading after claims that price falls on international markets have not been matched in the shops . |
| 15 | According to a report in the Financial Times of Feb. 21 , David Levi , the Second Vice Prime Minister and a supporter of Sharon , was " furious " that he had not been consulted about the appointments . |
| 16 | The Liberals , although the smallest of the three parties , would seem to be the only party whose programme had not been rejected by the electors ; and , as the only party which could co-operate with either of the other two , it would seem to have been put in a particularly strong position by the result of the election . |
| 17 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 18 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 19 | What their Lordships find still more important in this case is that important evidence was adduced which had not been foreshadowed in the depositions . |
| 20 | Auditors are normally concerned with ensuring that the accounts of a firm are an accurate record of its financial position and that employers or directors have not been absconding with the funds or ‘ fiddling the books ’ . |
| 21 | The strike was continued for another four days , partly to show that it had not been panicked by the killings into throwing up its responsibilities and partly to ensure that persons on unemployment insurance and social benefits received payment for a full week . |
| 22 | All descriptions and information on hotels , guest houses , selfcatering and activity holidays in this brochure are supplied by the individual establishments and have not been verified by the Arts & Leisure Department of Brighton or the Hove Leisure Services . |
| 23 | At that time the Camargue had not been invaded by the tourists , who instigated the establishment of mournful-looking groups of tethered , bony horses in American-style corrals , souvenir stalls with gardien hats , and gaucho hats and Texan sombreros , little cotton peaked caps , with Mickey Mouse or pink flamingoes on them . |
| 24 | This kind of pressure had not been confined to the women ; some of the men had been encouraged by their fathers to take science , too . |
| 25 | Such employees might well have claims for compensation against the UK government for defective implementation of the Directive , if they can show that , had the restriction not been included in the Regulations , their claim would have succeeded . |
| 26 | They have not been included in the examples given in Figs 2.1 and 2.2 . |
| 27 | We in the PAC have not been fighting for the crumbs from the master 's table . ’ |
| 28 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 29 | If the security services were so concerned about this then it clearly suggests that they had good reason to believe that Blake had not been forgotten by the Russians . |
| 30 | The general told a news conference that it had not been copied from the Americans , but because it was an ‘ easier , natural movement ’ . |